The Fly In The Ointment (Joseph Furphy Poems)
When the great Creator fashion'd us, and saw that we were good,He commission'd us to dominate the planet as it ...
When the great Creator fashion'd us, and saw that we were good,He commission'd us to dominate the planet as it ...
Before this thought the present hour recedes, As from the beach a billow backward rolls, And the great past, rich in heroic ...
Oh! why those narrow rules extol? These but restrain from ill, True virtue lies in strength of soul And energy of will. To all ...
Berlin, 22 September 1916.On 17 September one of oursubmarines sank a fullyloaded enemy troop transportin the Mediterranean. Theship went down ...
ST. STEPHEN'S cloistered hall was proudIn learning's pomp that day,For there a robed and stately crowdPressed on in long array.A ...
after MontalePack your suitcase, my childwith all your poems sacred and profanepack itand throw it into the river.The river will ...
The wind caught in the arms of mills mocks the dramaof minutes floating across the sky. Don Quixote of the ...
Prelude I SEE the boy-bard neath life's morning skies, While hope's bright cohorts guess ...
I sat apart upon a hill, And piped and piped ...
1 The autumn shade is thin. Grey leaves lie faint Where they will lie, and, where the thick green was, ...
Forever fair, forever calm and bright,Life flies on plumage, zephyr-light, For those who on the Olympian hill rejoice—Moons wane, and ...
(Written after entering New York Harbor at Daybreak)Up the vast harbor with the morning sun The ship swept in from ...
Here meet together the prefiguring dayAnd day prefigured. "Eating, thou shalt stand,Feet shod, loins girt, thy road-staff in thine hand,With ...
727Precious to Me-She still shall be-Though She forget the name I bear-The fashion of the Gown I wear-The very Color ...
Precious to Me -- She still shall be -- Though She forget the name I bear -- The fashion of ...
YEARS of the modern! years of the unperform'd! Your horizon rises-I see it parting away for more august dramas; I ...
Forever fair, forever calm and bright, Life flies on plumage, zephyr-light, For those who on the Olympian hill rejoice-- Moons ...
At four years Nature is mountainous, Mysterious, and submarine. Even A city child knows this, hearing the subway's Rumor underground. ...
The sky is like an envelope, One of those blue official things; And, sealing it, to mock our hope, The ...
(ROOSEVELT) He turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees and ...
for Susan O'Neill Roe What a thrill ---- My thumb instead of an onion. The top quite gone Except for ...
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